Re: quality of a package

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 03:56:07AM +0800, zhaoway wrote:
> 
> > I saw on package.d.o there is a quality percentage for each package.  Would
> > you tell me how it counts? bug reports + lintian errors?
> 
> Those numbers have nothing to do with the quality of the
> package; they refer to the quality of the search result (a
> score based on your search parameters).  It is calculated by
> swish++, I do not know how.

Yeah, and they should be fixed or removed! ;-)

Consider that I'm looking for the package `gri' (I'll trim it for
stable to shorthen the results):

  Debian package search results
    ---------------------------------------------------------------
  Release    Quality                     Package (size)
   stable      100%    gri-ps-doc 2.4.2-1   (610k)
           PostScript manual for gri, a language for scientific graphics.
   stable      75%     gri-html-doc 2.4.2-1   (636.3k)
           HTML manual for gri, a language for scientific graphics.
   stable      50%     grip 2.91-1   (95.1k)
           a GTK-based cd-player and cd-ripper.
   stable      15%     gri 2.4.2-1   (654.2k)
           a language for scientific graphics programming.
    ---------------------------------------------------------------
  Responses 1-4 shown, out of total of 4.

So the perfect match scores dead last!

Peter